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watchful

• (a) engaged in or accustomed to close observation
  • caught by a couple of alert cops
  • alert enough to spot the opportunity when it came
  • constantly alert and vigilant, like a sentinel on duty
  alert,
• (s) experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness
  • insomniac old people
  • insomniac nights
  • lay sleepless all night
  • "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
  insomniac, sleepless,

Synonyms

alert insomniac sleepless

Antonyms

unalert unvigilant unwatchful

See also

awake lively wary

Words of close approximity